Thomas Clements Parr: Gibbs Family Tree

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Generation: 1

Thomas Clements Parr was born on 15 Jul 1803 in Berkeley Square, London; died on 1 Dec 1863 in Clifton, Bristol.

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Baptism: 16 Aug 1803, St George Hanover Square, London

Thomas married Julia Elizabeth Elton on 6 Jan 1836 in Clifton, Bristol. Julia (daughter of Sir Charles Abraham Elton, 6th Baronet and Sarah Smith) was born in 1807 in Downy Parade, Bristol; died on 27 Apr 1881 in Bristol. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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2. Major-Gen. Sir Henry Hallam Parr, CMG, CB KCB was born on 24 Jul 1847 in Rockbeare, Devon; died on 3 Apr 1914 in Bourton, Dorset; was buried on 8 Apr 1914 in Bourton, Dorset.

Generation: 2

Major-Gen. Sir Henry Hallam Parr, CMG, CB KCB

(1.Thomas¹) was born on 24 Jul 1847 in Rockbeare, Devon; died on 3 Apr 1914 in Bourton, Dorset; was buried on 8 Apr 1914 in Bourton, Dorset.

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Baptism: 20 Aug 1847, Rockbeare, Devon
Residence: 1891, Farnborough, Hampshire; Relation to Head of House: Head
Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London

Notes:

Son of Thomas Clements Parr of Clifton, Co. Gloucestershire. He was 1st cousin to his wife's mother, his own mother, Julia, being sister of Sir Arthur H Elton (search in Family Tree). Baptised 20 August 1847 at Rockbeare. Educated at Eton College, and Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Buried 8 April 1914 at Bourton. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there, and Memorial window in Taunton parish church (south aisle) to him and his 2 soldier sons designed by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale. Will proved 20 June 1914.

Ensign Somerset Light Infantry 1865; Lieut. 1869; Captain 1878; Major 1885; Brevet-Colonel 1886; Major-General 1899; Retired 1906. Colonel of Somerset Light Inf. 1910. He was Military Secretary to Sir Bartle Frere in S. Africa 1877-80 and served in the Kaffir and Zulu wars and in the first Boer war. Between 1882 and 1885 he had war service in Egypt and in 1885 (when only 38 yrs. old) was Adj. Gen. and 2nd in command of the Egyptian Army. Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria 1886-88. Attended the French manoeuvres 1887 and the German ones 1888. Military adviser on Sir Charles Euan Smith's mission to Fez 1892. Assistant Inspector General of Ordnance at the War Office 1894. Commanded the North Western District, England, 1902-6. Mentioned in despatches in Zulu war and Egyptian expedition 1882. Medals for Kaffir and Zulu wars with clasp for 1877, 8 and 9. Medal and Khedive's star for Egyptian expedition 1882. Turkish orders Medjidie and Osmanieh, 1884. CMG. 1880, CB 1893, KCB. 1911.

He was a Justice of the Peace for Dorset and Deputy Lieut. Author (1880) of A Sketch of the Kaffir and Zulu Wars. See Sir Henry Hallam Parr's Recollections, ed. 1917 by Sir. Charles Brickdale (search in Family Tree).

For more information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hallam_Parr

Birth:
Rockbeare House

Died:
Chaffeymoor House

Henry married Lady Lilian Mary Gibbs on 15 Nov 1888 in Bramley, Surrey. Lilian (daughter of George Louis Monck Gibbs and Laura Beatrice Elton) was born on 4 Sep 1865 in Paddington, London; died on 15 Jul 1925 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire; was buried on 21 Jul 1925 in Bourton, Dorset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

3. Lieut. Arthur Henry Hallam Parr was born on 12 Feb 1890 in Portsea Island, Hampshire; died on 22 Feb 1910 in Malta; was buried in Malta.
4. Lieut. George Roworth Parr was born on 29 Nov 1891 in Kensington, London; died on 19 Dec 1914 in Ploogsteert Wood, Belgium; was buried in Ploogsteert Wood, Belgium.
5. Humphrey Clements Parr was born on 21 May 1898 in Cheriton, Kent; died on 15 Sep 1898 in Cheriton, Kent.